LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Padstow Naming Ceremony
H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, deputising for his mother, the late Princes Marina, Duchess of Kent, President of the R.N.L.I., named the new Padstow life-boat James and Catherine Macfarlane, a 48-foot 6-inch Oakley, on 19th July,...
Category: Inaugurations
The Help of Shipowners
THE following is the list of effective donations received from the owners.
services canied out during the first The list does not include any -services four months of 1927, with the names of where salvage has been paid to...
Category: Donations
Melrose
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — At two in the afternoon of the 14th of October, 1948, information was received that the motor trawler Melrose, of Kilmore, had broken her propeller shaft and was drifting towards the shore two and a half...
Fortunatus
The motor fishing boat Fortunatus went out fishing early in the morning of the 3rd May.
She had not returned by 9.30 A.M., and as a strong E.N.E. wind was blowing, and the sea was rising and breaking at the harbour entrance...
St. Joseph
FISHING BOAT ADRIFT Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.-—During the afternoon of the 17th of September, 1947, the pilot on watch reported that the local motor fishing boat St. Joseph was being carried out to sea by the easterly wind and ebbing tide...
Products and Services Guide
PRODUCTS AND Support those who support us! IF VOU EVER WAVE THIS SOET OF TfcOU&LEDOLlfcE WE DO — Fleets Bridge Poole, Dorset, England BHI7 7AB Telephone: Poole 3031 Howard's Metal Fabricators Ltd STANLEY STREET, LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK...
Category: Advertisement
Junco
DEC. 19TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. At 12.25 A.M. news was received from the Castletown coastguard that a vessel was ashore at Langness Point. An E.N.E. wind was blowing, with a heavy ground swell.
The motor life-boat...
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
THE ISLE OF PURBECK, AND ITS LIFE- BOATS.
XLI. — SWANAGE.— The Charlotte and Mary, 35 feet by 9 feet, 10 oars.
XLII.—KIMERIDGE.—The Mary Heape, 28 feet by 6 feet 8 inches, 5 oars.
THIS...
Category: Articles
Leonie, of Charlotte-Town
KINGSTOWN.—On the 30th of September the brig Leonie, of Charlotte-Town, Nova Scotia, mistaking the Vanguard wreck-lightfor the Kish Light, ran into shoal-water off Bray, 7 miles south of Kingstown, where, after daylight, the master anchored...
Cdr John C Mansell
Cdr John C Mansell RN RTD, life president of Newbury branch until his death. He joined the branch in 1969 and served as box secretary, souvenir secretary, vice chairman and chairman and was awarded the silver badge 1983..
Category: Obituaries